Agreement FS Italian - Indian Railways for upgrading of the railway corridor the New Delhi - Jaipur

On the line 70 fleeting trains and 20 freight trains travel every day

Today the Italian railway group Italian Railroads of the State and that Indian Indian Railways has reached an agreement on a roadmap of cooperation in order to deliver, within the summer, the study of feasibility for the upgrading infrastructural of the railway corridor between New Delhi and Jaipur and in order to analyze the possibility of financing of the work. The project ulteriorly strengthens the technical-specialized collaboration between the group FS Italiane and Indian Railways, online with the engagements contained in the which signed memorandum of understanding from the two groups in January 2017 that it previews: development of the security systems of the railway traffic, diagnostic of the infrastructure and formation of the Indian staff in topic safety.

FS Italian has remembered that the railway corridor between New Dehli and Jaipur is strategic for India. In fact, with beyond 300 kilometers of line on which 70 fleeting trains and 20 freight trains travel every day crossing 17 stations, it joins the Capital Indiana with Jaipur, main city of the Rajastan, note also as "Saint Petersburg" of India.

Thanks to the work of infrastructural potenziamento, the trains that journey on this net will be able to reach the speed of 200 kilometers per hour. The project, moreover, respects the priority of the Asian Country in topic of infrastructural investments, that is to modernize the existing railway net and to carry the performances of safety and the speed to the maximum levels that this net can reach, still before to plan and to develop to new nets.

The Italian railway group has remembered moreover that Italferr, the Italian society of engineering of FS that has opened an office to New Delhi in 2016, and Italcertifer, the railway accounting firm Italian of FS, already is engaged in six projects in India.